Eyeglasses.



W. w. ESSIGK.

EYEGLASSES.

APPLICATION FILED 213.20, 1912.

1,026,386. Patented May 14, 1912.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM W. ESSIGK, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

EYEGLASSES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 20, 1912.

Patented May 14, 1912.

serial'No. 678,833.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM IV. Essiou, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Reading, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have 111- nose guards and spring-bow thereto hereinafter described in connection with the accompanying drawings, the novel features of which are specifically pointed out in the subjoined claims.

Figure 1 is an enlarged front elevation of a pair of eye-glasses embodying my invention; one of the post fittings being shown partly in section and unclenched. Fig. 2 shows one of the fittings ready for application to the eye-wire inclosing a lens. Fig. 3 shows the completed sheet metal blank. Figs. 1 and 5 show the latter as flanged and ready to be bent into the form shown in Fig. 2; the cut-away portions of the sides being indicated in dotted lines; and Fig. 6 shows a modification in which these portions are adapted to serve as the attaching projections.

In my improved eye-glasses, as shown, each of the lenses A is framed by an eyewire B having outwardly-bent abutting ends 2, 2; the abutting ends of each eye-wire being brought together at a portion of the lens edge which is to be located adjacent the nose of the wearer, and being in each case clamped together by a separate fitting which is specially adapted, as hereinafter fully described, to serve as a very simple, inexpensive, and satisfactory means of attaching the spring-bow and nose-guard pieces.

As shown, the post fitting is formed of a single piece of sheet metal, with parallel side portions 5, 5 and a uniting eye-wire end portion 6 substantially such as form part of the temple-fitting for spectacles illus trated and described in Patent No. 7 35,917 issued to me, as assignee, on August 11, 1903; said end portion 6 having a perforation 7 through which the bent eye-wire ends 2, 2 are passed, and being clenched to said eye-wires in the manner set forth in said patent.

In my present improved construction the single-piecc sheet metal fitting employed, has the inwardly flanged and abutted edge portions 8, 8 of the respective side plates 5, 5, extended beyond the outer end 13 of the corresponding side 5 of the fitting, so as to form a pair of clenching projections 15, 15 on each side, with a seating recess 16 between the abutted pairs of projections to receive the bow and guards. The end portions of the spring-bow 17 and nose-guards 18, 18 are fitted to said recesses, and after being seated therein upon the ends 13 of the shorter sides 5, are firmly secured to the fittings by turning over upon them, in opposite directions, the clenching projections 15 15, 15 15 which thus tightly box in the nose pieces upon the ends of the lens attached fitting.

The cut-away portions of the sides 5, shown in dotted lines at 20 in Fig. 5 as forming the recess 16, may obviously be merely bent at right angles to the sides as indicated. so as to form a more extended seat for the nose guards and spring, instead of being removed as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. And these bent portions 20 may themselves be used as the clenching projections of the fitting, as indicated in the modification shown in Fig. 6, though the previously described construction is decidedly preferable.

It will be readily seen that my invention provides an extremely simple and inexpensive construction involving a minimum number of parts which are durably combined and present a very neat and attractive appearance.

What I claim is 1. A post fitting for framed eye-glasses formed of a single piece of sheet metal comprising parallel side portions and a uniting eye-wire end portion, the opposite end. of each of said side portions being formed with a seating recess and clenching projections.

2. A post fitting for framed eye-glasses formed of a. single piece of sheet metal comprising parallel side portions having inwardly flanged and abutting edges, and a uniting eye-wire end portion; the opposite end of each of said side portions being cut away between the extremities of said flanged edges to form a seating recess and a pair of clenching projections thereon.

3. In eye-glasses the combination of a pair of separately framed lenses; post fittings thereto each formed of a single piece of prising parallel side portions and a uniting eye-Wire end portion, the opposite end of each of said side portions being formed with clenching projections.

In testimony WhereoflI afliX my signature, in the presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM W. ESSIGK.

Witnesses:

W. G. STEWART, D. M. STEWART.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, D. C. 

